Corporate environments can be a tough nut to crack. Many departments and roles are involved, each with different priorities to yours, and you face changes that must be navigated. The Product Owner (PO) accountability, while critical, often doesn’t wield the power Scrum suggests. You can accept this status quo and focus on managing your backlog only, or take action and leverage your POwer to meet product needs and foster productive cross-department collaboration.

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In the pressure cooker of product development, success depends not just on processes but on the strength of informal networks—the trusted relationships that cut across hierarchies and silos. Companies that fail to cultivate these networks struggle to adapt, innovate, and deliver.

At this session, we will explore how to intentionally foster informal networks that drive product development forward and enable seamless collaboration across departments, ultimately aligning efforts with business goals…

What is the difference of a test architect to a commonly known software architect? And why do I need one? What do they have in common and where do they differ? Is there a gap where we need a bridge (Spoiler: yes)? What are the different expectations of other roles on a test architect?

Questions over questions which will be covered in this talk. With examples where it did go well because there was a test architect and examples where things got haywire maybe because a test architect was missing.

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The objective of visual test automation is replace flaky and hard to read selectors with images. Many software packages offer the possibility of using images as selectors, but it rarely works reliably. Appium has the function "findElementByImage," Playwright has functions like "toHaveScreenshot." Code and no-code tools alike provide a number of options to tweak the sensitivity, where both, too low and to high values, produce their own set of artefacts. What makes this so difficult? Doesn't AI…

The development and deployment of AI and Generative AI systems in a way that promotes environmental, social, and economic well-being for current and future generations is referred to as sustainable AI. To do this, AI must be built with energy-efficient algorithms and run on renewable energy sources to reduce carbon footprints. Ethical considerations are crucial, ensuring that AI respects human rights and diversity while avoiding increasing disparities. Data management must uphold the ideals of…

GAIA-X is a strategic initiative of the European Union in order to support secure and trustworthy dataspaces. But what does it mean to set up a GAIA-X compliant data space, polished powerpoint aside?
In this presentation we will report about our experiences learned from almost three years' work in one of the GAIA-X lighthouse projects "COOPERANTS". COOPERANTS is the world’s only collaborative alliance of industry, SMEs and research institutes in the Aeronautics and space sector that solves…

Fitness functions are an essential part of evolutionary architectures – and they can also bring desired structures and properties to legacy code bases, step by step. But how do they look like in practice? What kinds of fitness do they check and assert?

After a general introduction to fitness functions we'll do a deep dive into some concrete examples, covering use cases for common architectural patterns. We'll see examples in Java code, based on ArchUnit and jMolecules. But the basic ideas and…

Software development is a profession, discipline and industry obsessed with solutions. It places justifiably high value on answers... but what if we take a step back for a moment to consider that an answer arises as a response to a question? And, therefore, perhaps we should be placing more focus on asking questions.

The right questions can be more powerful in the long run than answers. Answers may shift as specific technologies change beneath our feet, but if we are able to frame the right…

EventStorming, collaborative modelling, bounded context canvas - now what?

Did you ever feel like you're standing in front of a mountain of cloud tools and implementation options, with a well-designed domain model, but no idea where to start? Or are you fully equipped with technical understanding and cloud experience, but deeply unsure how to "cut" your system for good modularization?

Fear not, because this workshop will introduce you to a solid set of tried and proven methods and tools, that…